Language of Sexual Crime

JANET COTTERILL is Reader in Language and Communication and Director of Studies for the MA in Forensic Linguistics at Cardiff University, UK. She is also an experienced consultant and expert witness in forensic linguistics. She co-edited The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (formerly Forensic Linguistics) for five years and is the current Vice President and President-Elect of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL). With a background in translation/interpreting and TEFL/Applied Linguistics, Janet has worked in the UK, France, Egypt a

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Rape as Social Activity: An Application of Investigative Linguistics; T.Grant & J.Woodhams The Elicitation of a Confession: Admitting Murder But Resisting an Accusation of Attempted Rape; S.Berk-Seligson 'Just Good Friends': Managing the Clash of Discourses in Police Interviews with Paedophiles; K.Benneworth The Questioning of Child Witnesses: A Comparison of the Child's Linguistic Experience in the Initial Interview and in the Courtroom Cross-Examination; M.Aldridge The Language of Consent in Rape Law; P.Tiersma The Repertoire of Complicity Vs. Coercion: The Discursive Trap of the Rape Trial Protocol; D.Ponterotto Normative Discourses and Representations of Coerced Sex; S.Ehrlich Purposes, Roles and Beliefs in the Hostile Questioning of Vulnerable Witnesses; E.S.M.Leung & J.Gibbons The Victim As 'Other': Analysis of the Language of Acquittal Decisions in Sexual Offences in the Israeli Supreme Court; B.Bogoch Sentencing Sexual Abuse Offenders: Sex Crimes and Social Justice; C.MacMartin & L.A.Wood When Rape Is (Not Quite) Rape; A.Mooney At the Hands of the Brothers: A Corpus-Based Lexico-Grammatical Analysis of Stance in Newspaper Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse Cases; A.O'Keefe & M.Breen Index

"As with any collected volume of work, there is a degree of variance in the quality of submissions. In this case, however, the range is simply from excellent to superb. Novices in the field are presented alongside veterans from the Forensic Linguistic circuit, and they keep up with the expectations of rigid, thorough, and professional scholarship that has become the standard in this area of study. Janet Cotterill has certainly selected and assembled an impressive collection of work that will contribute to advances in the research of criminal acts, and specifically sexual crime, for many years to come." - Kerry Linfoot, Department of English, United States Air Force Academy